- Latest Akimblog Hamilton now online
While I continue to struggle to throw together some thoughts on last Friday’s largely inconsequential Art Crawl, I can at least offer to fill the void with my most recent Hamilton report for Akimblog, which went online this morning.
Diane Landry, The Defibrillators, installation view (photo: Mike Lalich)
Head over there now to read about Gary Pearson, […]
- Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook friezes spared demolition
The local media has been quiet lately around the fate of Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook’s sculptural friezes on the ill-fated Federal Building in downtown Hamilton. From an immediate furore around their pending destruction at the hands of current owners Vrancor Group to eleventh-hour scrambles to block any demolition with a Heritage designation, this story received considerable […]
- New gallery bringing the old and hopefully something new
Now that I’m officially snowed in and bored out of my skull, I find myself with an excess of time in which to catch up on recent goings-on in Hamilton art; namely, the grand opening last weekend of Focus Gallery, the latest addition to an ever-expanding string of arts-based establishments on James Street North.
Despite any […]
- James North Art Crawl: January
Considering that I was unable to review the last three Art Crawls, I can thoroughly sympathize with the spirit of hibernation that seemed to prevail during this month’s iteration of what is now a fully established fact of the Hamilton art scene. Perhaps that over-familiar routine is breeding complacent content and fatigue; more likely, my […]
- Top Five Hamilton Hits of 2010
As I’ve done now for the past two years, I’m taking advantage of the lull afforded by the end of the holiday season and a lingering cold to reflect back upon the best of what Hamilton’s art scene had to offer in 2010.
While tracing back through the year’s exhibitions and events, I was gratified to […]
- An Early Winter
Unnaturally dense fogs last Friday night prevented me from taking my usual tour of the James North Art Crawl, which has made the task of catching up on new exhibitions along the street a matter of small measures between much-needed hours in the studio. Thankfully, one of the more irregular installations for this month’s Crawl […]
- James Street North Public Art and Opinion
The shortlist of prospective projects for the James Street North Public Art commissions has been open to public consultation for some time now (I have vague memories of skimming proposals in my tiny Liverpool hotel room between episodes of Coronation Street) so I’ve fallen a bit behind in reporting on the individual projects. But with […]
- Akimblog Hamilton: Supplement
This time last week, I was still dead to the world sleeping off one hell of a weird bout of jetlag, but in the fastest turnaround I’ve experienced since starting with Akimblog in 2008, my four-day marathon of Hamilton art viewing has been translated into something resembling the English language, duly edited and formatted, and […]
- James North Art Crawl: September
As much as I’m still reluctantly dragging my way back into a dual artist-writer mindset after a steady month of studio focus, it proved hard to ignore the onset of yet another Art Crawl when I was able to see its imminence growing from my perch behind the drafting table facing my second-floor window overlooking […]
- Submit your Art for Supercrawl
Advertising calls for submission isn’t necessarily part of the new master plan for this blog, but the narrow timeline on this one calls for all the publicity possible. With a deadline of September 15, this is a great opportunity to showcase an exhibition-ready, outdoor-friendly work in this major Hamilton art event at the end of […]
